5 Simple Holiday Centerpieces

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Chrysoberyl (Cat’s Eye) Stone

  General properties of chrysoberyl (cat’s eye): protection, wealth, beauty, healing Color: Cat’s eye is translucent and often greenish-yellow, gray-green, yellow or grayish yellow. Fibrous inclusions produce a cat’s eye. Element: Earth Planetary: Venus Astrological: Pisces Energy: Projective Geology: Chrysoberyl is a hard stone rating 8.5 on Moh’s Scale of Hardness. It is found in … Continue reading Chrysoberyl (Cat’s Eye) Stone

Yule Gift Wrapping Ideas (That Don’t Look Christmas-y!)

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Gift wrapping is one of my favorite parts of the holiday season.  A lovely presentation takes whatever is inside the package and brings it up a notch.

Because the Sabbats are so minimally represented in mainstream marketing (and because commercialism is kind of cheesy anyway), I have listed some Yule gift wrapping ideas below that are truly for the pagan.  Enjoy!

Try this Triple Moon wrap.  I had fun with this one.  Simply take some glittery card stock or scrap booking, trace two crescent moons and a full moon, and cut it out.  Use a base wrapping paper of your choice (I like simple white), add a ribbon and voila!

IMG_1174Take the natural approach.  I decorated these gift bags with leftover dried herbs from my garden harvest in the fall.  This is an especially nice idea for handmade spell kits.  Choose an herb that is appropriate for the spell kit…

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Blessed Thistle

    Blessed Thistle or Cnicus Benedictus is a small annual plant that grows to around two feet tall. The leaves are hairy with spiny edges and it has yellow flowers which bloom from May to August. It is believed to be called “blessed” thistle because it was used in medieval times to cure the … Continue reading Blessed Thistle

The Cedar

There are several types of cedar tree.  They include: Cedrus Libani – an evergreen conifer which is native to Lebanon, Turkey and Syria.  It can grow as tall as 35 meters and has several trunks with clear horizontal layers in its structure. It has black/brown bark with spaced ridges and cracks and dark green leaves … Continue reading The Cedar